ROH TV Workrate Report: 1/17/11

Well this show will be off the air within the next few weeks or months, so even though I haven't been digging the most recent episodes anywhere near as much as the earlier ones with Necro matches, we might as well finish it out at this point.

1. Briscoes vs. The Elite (Ted McNaylor & Adam Revolver?) starts us off. I think one or both of these guys were in Ohio Valley at one point. Jay Briscoe always plows right into guys with his shoulderblocks which is a little thing I always appreciate. He also decapitates McNaylor with a boss lariat. AND the great STO into the turnbuckle that McNaylor flies into chin first. Man that looks nasty. OVW team is fairly inoffensive and served their purpose here, showcasing the Briscoes offense.

I wish I could to sceen caps because seriously, the slimy/sweaty Christopher Daniels Vs. photo is just awful, reminding me of Jon Hamm's Sergio character being birthed, but with less charisma.

2. Daizee Haze' abdomen is downright freaky. And we got her vs. MsChif now. I dig MsChif's back elbows while in a waistlock. Seems like those don't happen as often as they should for some reason. MsChif starts wrenching Haze' neck and leg, almost making Haze' heel touch her own head and it looks awesome. They work a headscissor sequence I assume for da ratings, but it likely won't affect the breakdown as there was enough screaming. MsChif uses her PBS-approved science smarts to block a rana, then stomps all over Haze. MsChif bumps a missle dropkick real nicely, but they go through a finisher reversal sequence afterwards that seems real sluggish. But they win my heart back when MsChif awesomely back elbows out of the heart punch and spikes Haze with some DDT type thing for the win. Haze took it great and I was shocked she lost here. BUT MSCHIF DISRESPECTS HER AFTER THE MATCH BY NOT FOLLOWING THE CODE!!! And then MISTS Haze!! Yeah! It makes me wistful for Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 where Muta had 5 different mist types you could use on your opponent as his finisher.

Hogewood puts over the mist GREAT by seeming genuinely pissed about it. "There is NO place in ROH for that! No place! She had already won the match!"

Oh sweet a Haas AND Benjamin interview!? They knew it was my birthday!! They're going after da BELTS! Briscoes interrupt and I always like Jay Briscoe promos. Dude always seems honest and doesn't try any "we were in a war brahs" kinda talk, just has fuckin crazy eyes and talks about beating peoples' asses. And I always believe he will. Those neck tattoos and crazy eyes say so. Then Benjamin loses me by fumbling through a sentence telling the Briscoes to pull their pants up so we can decide who the men are...I know some people think this guy was being held down and not pushed properly in WWE, but at this point everyone probably admits that WWE were right.

3. Hero vs. Daniels is our main event and Hero always makes locking on a cravate look nice. Hero looks great getting out of a wristlock by stepping down on the back of Daniels' knee and just kicking him in the head. Daniels' bald head makes the cravate look even better as you can see all these veins bulging as Hero tightens it up. Daniels is working over Hero's arm pretty well but it won't go anywhere because it's Hero's non-elbowing arm STUPID! Hero dumps him to the floor where Hagadorn gets in a cheap shot then hides behind Del Ray, allowing Hero to do a Fuerza bump yakuza kick which looked fucking awwwwesome.

Back in for a hammerlock/cravate, but Daniels fights out and gets a German suplex on Hero and MAN did Hero launch himself into it. Rolling elbow sends Daniels to the floor. Hero gets thrown into the guard rail but jumps up on it and launches back with a great elbow that Daniels plowed right into. Daniels comes back in the ring with some Suicidesque offense but Hero levels him with a rolling yakuza kick that shouldn't have worked but it totally did. Running powerbomb only gets two. Daniels locks on a really hard submission from a standing submission that is really hard to describe but looked awesome and totally plausible. Kind of a cravate but with a leg applying more pressure to the neck. Hero sells it great by slowly getting brought down to his knees and makes the ropes. Hagadorn gets knocked off the ropes and Hogewood is awesome here as he is clearly filled with glee that Hagadorn got what was coming to him. Hero uses this to BLAST Daniels with a great rolling elbow though but Daniels kicks out. Now we get the loaded elbow pad, but that allows Daniels to hit a uranage and actually NOT overshoot the BME for the win. I did not see that coming.

So now KOW have both lost their last singles matches...does this make them WEAKER or will their team be strong enough to beat a really shitty team like Titus/King!?!? My guess will be that Rhett Titus will not look good while wrestling.